This book is almost wonderful! Part of my lovely collection. Teaches children to be honest

So I grew up in Kuwait and this book reminds me so much of my childhood. The watchman, the cats, baklava and even my mother leaving for work in the morning with us and coming back around the same time in the afternoon. Very well written. My children ages 10, 6 and 3 love this book and want to read it over and over and then ask me to tell them my childhood stories.

This book is perfection, from the illustrations, moral of the story about honesty and the creativity (the baklava storm and sticky syrup amuses us all)!

We love all the Ruqaya's Bookshelf books we own and will continue to purchase more of them! I like to think of all the books as the Islamic version and style of the Robert Munsch books I read growing up, awesome illustrations and funny stories except these books have fantastic morals as well!

My boys love this story, as they do all of Ruqaya's Bookshelf books! We love the Arabic references and the illustrations, but most importantly, I love using it to discuss honesty and how to get out of a bind. It's a great example of forgiveness and how children can accept that everyone makes mistakes, but they can easily be rectified.

We received it yesterday. And my son was very excited to see it. He was captivated as i read it to him. In the middle I stopped for a second to catch my breath, and he nudged me to keep reading. Personally I loved the lesson taught in the story in such an interesting manner. I'm happy I bought this book.